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You are going to make 773,618 decisions over a lifetime, according to a poll conducted by the makers of the Puzzler Mind Gym 3D game. And you’re going to regret 143,262 of them. If you are a sponsor of clinical trials, one of your decisions should be to sit down with your contract research organization […]

A booming economy brings opportunities, and the biotech industry is booming. But with that comes challenges, particularly with regard to finding qualified candidates to fill the growing number of jobs. This has brought new meaning to the phrase “talent wars,” which has been bubbling at the surface for over a decade but which seems to […]

Looking for a way to discourage new trial participants? How about sitting a coordinator down with a prospective patient, then running through a 45-minute inclusion/exclusion criteria review where the second-to-last question abruptly takes the patient out of consideration? “It happens all the time and it’s deflating” for clinical trial practitioners and their patients, says Carla […]

A new survey of nearly 4,000 clinical trial participants says their doctors and family members have the most important influence on their decisions about joining trials. “Family members or friends are often important influencers, and about half of the respondents wanted to hear about the clinical trial experience from patients that have already participated in […]

Two influential clinical industry groups are focusing on new training efforts to prevent principal investigators from burning out and it appears that the FDA is willing to work with them on the effort. Read More Source: CenterWatch Weekly

ACRP supports clinical research professionals through membership, training and development, and certification. Founded in 1976, ACRP is a Washington, DC-based non-profit organization with more than 13,000 members who work in clinical research in more than 70 countries.

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